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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

June 21, 1996Bear Lake County, Idaho

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1996, 3:43 PM MDT for Bear Lake County, Idaho. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1996, 3:43 PM MDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1996, 4:15 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT
Area
Whole counties

County Bear Lake County, ID

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 1996-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 1996-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2304 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
231 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 7:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDuchesne36 min
Jun 21, 11:43 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCJuab, Utah62 min
Jun 21, 12:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSanpete41 min
Jun 21, 12:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCWasatch2 hr
Jun 21, 12:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSummit2 hr
Jun 21, 12:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCJuab, Sanpete, Utah47 min
Jun 21, 1:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDuchesne, Summit110 min
Jun 21, 1:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCMorgan, Rich94 min
Jun 21, 1:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCSanpete, Utah85 min
Jun 21, 2:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCUtah, Wasatch34 min
Jun 21, 2:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCMorgan, Rich33 min
Jun 21, 3:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCDuchesne59 min
Jun 21, 3:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCRich34 min
Jun 21, 2:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCUinta28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Idaho, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.